A Slight Scheduling Snafu

Today's meeting with the medical oncologist went off without a hitch. Blood work was great. Body weight according to the scale says it's unchanged. I keep telling my mother that people just didn't realize how ill fitting my pants were before all this happened. She staunchly disagrees. We talked about the 5 year plan, also known as Tamoxifen and couple of research trials I could enter to prevent recurrence. One involves a vaccine, and if I have the right type of immune antigens (HLA) I can enroll in that study for 3 years. If I cannot enroll in that study, then there is a 2nd one to test the long term efficacy of metformin, a diabetes drug, being used to see over 5 years if it protects against recurrence of breast cancer. Both interesting and both are double blind studies, so either way I could end up with placebo (sugar pill), but seeing as I will still be on the Tamoxifen, there is no harm in participating in either study.

I have 5 O'Clock shadow head (hair is growing!) and feel pretty darn good right now. Good news is that I should continue to feel this way.

Microwaving Delay

The New Year's holiday was creating a back up at the radiation oncologists and unfortunately my appointment had been scheduled as a follow up and not a new set up for radiation. Let's just say my radiation oncologist in her strong Russian accent made it clear that this was frustrating to her and that because of the back up they were not able to do the set up today. As cancer treatment goes, here is some more hurry up and wait. So my marking tattoo and time with the Physicist (Dr. Sheldon Cooper, perhaps?) is delayed until next Tuesday. The doctor did tell me that being tired is the exception not the rule and that because I am so small chested that I really shouldn't burn (too much). Yay barely A's!

The news of the delay was annoying to say the least as I am looking forward to being done. I threatened to eat my feelings in cupcakes after, but my mother convinced me perhaps actual lunch would be better. Given that I still can't tolerate chocolate, real food was a much better option. Now to work on not inhaling my food.

In light of today's events calls for some Physicist (fictional) bloopers